I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
DERRICK LEWISThat’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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I don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
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I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can’t do that. I have a strike on my back. I can’t have a normal job. So, I’ve got to fight for everything I’ve got.
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I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.
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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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